AAAmeryka with an even more capital A. Białoszewski’s two accounts on America
AAAmeryka with an even more capital A. Białoszewski’s two accounts on America
Author(s): Piotr SobolczykSubject(s): Gender Studies, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Associazione Italiana Polonisti (AIP)
Keywords: Queer Diary;Queer Modernism;Polish Modernism;Travelling Narrative;America
Summary/Abstract: The article compares two versions of Miron Białoszewski’s American journal. The first one is censored, literarily elaborated and published officially in communist times, albeit posthumously. The other is a crude piece from Białoszewski’s Secret Diary. Both versions are analysed as attempts to come out in literature. In his American journal written in 1982, Białoszewski searched for a “third way” between communism and the Solidarity movement – namely, in the (homo)sexual liberation which he found in porn cinemas, darkrooms, and sex shops.
Journal: pl.it – rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 11
- Page Range: 135-153
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English